Work Arrangements and Troop Deployment for Guangdong and Guangxi

(November 17, 1950)

To the Central-South Bureau, the Party Committee of the Central-South Military Region, and for transmission to the South China Sub-Bureau:

(1) The report of November 13 from the Party Committee of the Military Region has been received. All plans and arrangements are very good; please proceed to implement them resolutely, item by item, without delay.
(2) The resolution of the Central-South Bureau on the work in Guangxi is also very good. It is highly necessary for you to send Tao Zhu [1] to Guangxi to assist in the work there. Has Tao Zhu already set out? If not, he should go immediately. I have cabled Comrade Ye Jianying [2] to go to Guangxi to assist for a period. Ye is scheduled to depart on November 21. It would not be appropriate for him to be away from Guangzhou for too long; he will probably stay in Guangxi for about a month before returning east. Therefore, Tao Zhu should remain in Guangxi for an extended period, until the bandit suppression issue is basically resolved, and then come back.
(3) To deal with the possibility of the enemy landing and invading Guangdong, preparations must be made to deploy five to seven armies. In addition to the three armies currently in Guangdong, it is planned to withdraw one army from Guangxi after five months (to be stationed in Wuzhou on standby) and to deploy Chen Mingren’s unit [3] as one army. The above five armies are designated for use in Guangdong. Furthermore, the 46th and 48th Armies, scheduled to be assembled in March next year, are to be positioned at a mobile location in Hengzhou [4]. Depending on the situation, they can be used either in the north or in Guangdong.
(4) To this end, every effort must be made to exterminate the bandits. Chen Mingren’s unit

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[1] Tao Zhu, then Director of the Political Department of the Central-South Military Region.
[2] Ye Jianying, then First Secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Commander and Political Commissar of the Guangdong Military Region.
[3] Chen Mingren’s unit refers to the 21st Corps of the People’s Liberation Army, reorganized from the Kuomintang troops that staged an uprising in Changsha. Chen Mingren served as Corps Commander.
[4] Hengzhou refers to Hengyang, Hunan Province.